Roofing
AI phone answering for roofing companies
Kende builds an AI agent that answers your roofing company's phone around the clock, captures storm damage and insurance leads with the details already sorted, and takes every call at once when a hailstorm puts a month of work into three days. It costs $1,200 a month for one location.
Where the job goes to somebody else
Hail comes through on a Tuesday afternoon. By Wednesday morning every roofer in the county is getting called, and the homeowners are calling three or four each. Whoever picks up and puts an inspection on the calendar wins the job. Your phone rings sixty times that day and you are on a roof for forty of them.
When it gets worse: The 72 hours after a hailstorm. A single storm can carry a quarter of the year's revenue, and it arrives entirely as inbound phone calls.
What the agent does on a roofing call
Built from your answers on the setup form, then tested by you before it answers a single customer.
- Takes storm-damage calls with the date of the storm, the address, and what the homeowner can see from the ground
- Asks whether a claim has been filed and captures the carrier, so your adjuster conversation starts warm
- Answers sixty simultaneous calls the morning after hail, with nobody on hold
- Separates a repair call from a full replacement lead before it reaches you
- Books inspections into your calendar on the Professional plan
- Answers in Spanish, which matters when your crews and your customers both need it
What it will not do
It never estimates a roof or discusses what an insurer will cover. It captures the claim details and gets an inspection on the books.
Run your own numbers
What missed calls cost a roofing business
Move the four controls to match your shop. Nothing is sent anywhere and nothing is stored. The arithmetic is on the page so you can check it.
Nights, weekends, and every call that comes in while you are already on one.
Calls you never hear about
520 a year
Work that goes to somebody else
$1,630,200
every year, at those numbers
What the Essential plan costs
$14,799 in year one, activation included
The calls you are missing are worth more than ten times what the plan costs.
Or call the demo line and hear it first. Nothing is charged until you have approved the agent.
The arithmetic: calls a week, times the share you miss, times fifty-two, times the share that would have become work, times what a job is worth. It is an estimate built from numbers you supplied, not a projection of what your business will earn.
Roofing questions, answered
Can an AI answering service handle a hail surge?
This is the strongest case for one in roofing. A phone system answers calls one at a time and queues the rest, and storm callers do not hold. The agent takes every call simultaneously, so sixty homeowners the morning after hail get sixty conversations. The week after a storm is worth more than the annual fee on its own.
Will it talk to the insurance company?
No. It captures what you need to open the conversation, meaning the storm date, the carrier, whether a claim is already filed and the address, then hands it to you. Anything that sounds like a coverage opinion is out of scope on purpose, because a wrong answer there is a problem you own for months.
What does an AI receptionist cost for a roofing company?
$399 activation and $1,200 a month for one location, with 750 minutes included and $0.50 for additional minutes. Storm months run long, so most roofers move to the $1,800 Professional plan for the 1,500-minute allowance and calendar booking.
Can it book the inspection while the homeowner is on the phone?
On the Professional plan, yes. It puts the inspection straight into your calendar during the call, which is the difference between a lead you chase and a job on the books. On Essential it takes the details and you call back.
Can it answer in Spanish?
Yes, and English and Spanish run in the same agent, so a caller who switches mid-sentence is followed rather than transferred. Nothing gets added to your bill for it.
Other trades we build for
Working in something that is not on this list? We build for it too. Tell us what you do on the quote form and we will have the answer ready when we call. We serve Oklahoma and Kansas.
Hear it answer a roofing call.
Call the number below and talk to the agent yourself. It is the same system that would answer your phone, running live.
That’s our AI answering. It’s the same system we build for you.